Laptop will no longer drag and drop.

My macbook pro(Lion operating system)will no longer drag and drop. It will no longer allow me to grab the item, let alone drag it. Please help.

You'll be more likely to get a quick and accurate answer if you ask in the iTunes for Mac forums. This forum is for users of iTunes on Windows systems and so probably not the most likely place for you to get assistance. Even better might be Roxio's own forums:
http://forums.support.roxio.com/
Regards.

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Now I've noticed that I can't drag and drop anything anywhere. No files will drop to software, I can't drag files from one folder to another, nor can I drop files to a different hard drive.
This was all working fine yesterday, and I haven't made any changes to my system in the interim. All I've done is restart after discovering the problem, but that didn't fix anything.
Any ideas?

Where have you looked? What did you use? Double-click on the boot volume's Desktop icon, CMD+J, select list view, click on Users triangle, then your username's triangle, then its Library triangle, then its Preferences triangle. In that folder is com.apple.finder.plist. It exists for all user accounts. Without it, your machine won't work.

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I had Leopard. I jumped to Mountain Lion. Sorry sorry sorry I did.   Many things are stupidly difficult to do, minor tasks, that once were EASY.
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I realize my post made me appear UNcalm. Sorry. I am rather irritated by this and have been.
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In Leopard, I would go to a website and could drag that website's icon ONTO my desktop. Period.
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I am CALM. I AM frustrated.

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I was thinking about why the songs arent importing and I feel that its either, A) the format of the files has changed since you last imported them, or B) you may need to rebuild the iTunes library.
Here is an article about doing just that:
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Re-creating the iTunes Library file
Note: After re-creating your library, any devices that you sync with iTunes (Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, iPad) will see your iTunes library as a new library and will completely resync. The next sync with such a device will take longer and may reset some options since your rebuilt library isn't familiar to the device.
1. Quit iTunes.
2. Locate your iTunes folder (this is the folder that contains the iTunes Library and iTunes Library.xml files).
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Mac OS X
/Users/[your username]/Music
Microsoft Windows XP
\Documents and Settings\[your username]\My Documents\My Music\
Microsoft Windows Vista
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Microsoft Windows 7
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3. Open your iTunes folder.
4. Drag the "iTunes Library.xml" or "iTunes Music Library.xml" file to the Desktop. If neither is available, learn how to add files back to the Library (because the XML file is not available, playlists and other information will not be available).
5. Drag the following file from your iTunes folder to the Trash:
Mac OS X
"iTunes Library" or "iTunes Library.itl"
Microsoft Windows
"iTunes Library.itl"
6. Open iTunes.
Important: Do not add any content into iTunes at this point (such as by purchasing something from the iTunes Store).
7. Choose File > Library > Import Playlist.
8. Navigate to the "iTunes Library.xml" file on the Desktop.
Mac users: Click Choose.
Windows users: Click Open.
If your Podcasts list in iTunes is empty after following these steps, learn how to add them back into iTunes.
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Basically when I try to drag files from a folder into iTunes, (drag and drop within iTunes is fine) the little picture of the circle with a slash through it shows up and wont allow me to drop it into iTunes. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Thanks. I'm so frustrated I'm about to smash my computer. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting my computer, everything I can think of.

just want to add my annoyance to the pile here. I can't see any logic behind removing the drag and drop function, especially when adding a new folder is now a multi-step process that is far from obvious. to start a new playlist with local folder content you now need to:enter settingsclick into advanced settings (basically all settings now seem to be "advanced"?)manually find and add the foldergo through the adventure of finding the files in your library.
-- because they may or may not be listed under "local files" - you won't know because Ctrl+F is also removed. so you have to remember/know what the album you added is called and search for that. if you have a mixed bag of file names from various albums, you're basically shafted; there's no way to find them all with a single search.then you can add them to playlisteta: but wait! there's more! if you have more than 15 files? you're **bleep** out of luck, because the search will only display the first 15 hits among your local files, and then show you spotify library tracks.I can't help but feel as though spotify is doing everything they can to stop us using spotify to listen to local files, as bugs that make it more or less impossible persist through multiple versions - and now features that seem to me to be basic functionality are being removed?mega minus points from someone who's been using spotify since 2008.

Can no longer drag and drop in iTunes

I've seen this addressed in a recent thread but that thread seemed to involve the Wacom tablet, which I don't have. I found today that I could no longer drag songs in iTunes at all, not even to add to a playlist, never mind moving from my computer to my iPod Touch. (But I was able to drag songs from the Finder to the iTunes window and add them to the Touch that way. Still, not a solution, just a workaround.) The only thing this has in common with the Wacom problem is that this might be the first time I've tried to move songs around in iTunes since I got and set up my Apple Magic Trackpad. Could some setting in Preferences be keeping this from working? I tried using a wireless Magic Mouse but that didn't work either. Any thoughts? I have 2008 MacBook with 10.6.8, iTunes 10.5.2, iPT has OS 4.2.1.

Thanks, Steve.
As you found, when I showed the sidebar copy and paste started working. Why? I don't know, but it was progress.
However, drag and drop from the library to a playlist, from a playlist to a playlist or even within a playlist simply does not work.
I spent a long time talking to Apple people, eventually going to a supervisor. However, we had no success after trying a number of things.
They have sent a ticket to Apple engineers. I look forward to hearing from them.

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